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Dog Super-Obedience

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

First, I am back from Montreal. I've been since Friday the 28th or something like that (it was a Friday, anyway). I guess I'll blog more about my visit eventually. For now, let us speak of dogs.

My dog is very obedient. She never steps into the living room, where she is not allowed. She also doesn't climb up to the second floor, where she also isn't allowed. And she doesn't leave our yard.

Nice as she may be, though, she has long hair. As she loves going outdoor and whatnot, her hair gets quite messy. My father got into the habit of trimming her hair a bit. He just cuts some messy bunches. Not long ago, though, he had a little accident while doing it...he injured her. When I heard this at first, I wasn't so surprised. He got those big hands, he uses a big pair of scissors that lack in sharpness, and a mess of hair is, well, messy.

It was another story when I saw the injury in question. It is disgusting. It is a large spot (larger than the tip of my thumb) of red flesh. It makes me feel all weird inside when I see it and talk about it.

You'd think a dog who is getting her flesh cut would react in some way or another. She didn't. She just stayed there while my father was doing it (of course it was accidental), and he saw what he had done only when it was too late.

Sigh. And now when she licks it (duh!), he gets angry at her.

A Very Healthy Woman

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

I had an appointment with my family doctor this week. Nothing special, just a routine check. I also received the results of my blood tests. I do not have diabetes, my cholesterol is fine, etc. And, most fun, I do not have AIDS. :D I didn't think I did, but as I was getting a blood test anyway, I had it checked. Being told "you don't have HIV or AIDS" by your doctor is always fun.

I will get an IUD (Intrauterine Device). It's a contraceptive, naturally. It doesn't protect against diseases, but I can still use condoms for that if needed. Actually, my doctor doesn't seem to trust condoms as a contraceptive, but he does trust them to prevent disease transmission.

Anyway...It's Easter weekend. My sister is here, with her partner and their baby. They also brought their damn cat. He keeps coming in my bedroom to eat my cat's food, and he growls and hisses at me while doing so.

Most importantly, though, Easter means the next episode of Doctor Who is finally coming! :D

Brand New Computer Smell

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Can you smell this? It is the smell of a brand new computer!

Or maybe not...My computer recently got infected. I scanned with Avast, Malware Bytes, Ad-Aware (twice) and Spybot. While the two latter ones did find files that had to be removed, it was not sufficient to put my computer back on the right track. Browsers kept crashing or consuming enormous amounts of RAM, Google search results were redirected to odd places, AVG disappeared, etc.

As I was already planning to do so anyway, I made a back up of everything and formatted my computer. I just finished re-installing Windows XP and some other stuff.

That's one of the reasons I didn't blog in the past few days. The other one is that I had forgotten my password and reset it. I wrote down my new password on a sheet which has mysteriously disappeared since then. I suspect my mom put it somewhere. I curse at the thought it could be in the recycling bin, as it also had some information from when I installed Portal and Steam. Argh.

And now my cat won't shut up because she saw discs reflecting lights on the ceiling and has been mewing practically non-stop for almost 2 hours. Shut up, bitch.

Cats’ Sense of Smell and the Facebook News Feed

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

No, I won't be linking these two topics. I'll just talk about one, then the other. ;)

I gave my cat toy mice to play with. She absolutely loves them. They do not contain cat nip. They are made of plain plastic and fake fur. She can smell them. If I put one in my pocket, she can smell it if she gets close enough.

I was quite surprised by the furry one (the living one, not the mice) this morning. Yesterday, I had put one of her toy mice in my pajama pants just for the pleasure of watching her smell it and retrieve it (I wasn't wearing the pants). This morning, the mouse wasn't in my pocket anymore. She jumped onto my bed and started mewing. Then her head was near the famous pocket. She smelled it. She knew there was a mouse in there, or there had been one recently. I never thought she could smell those mice even after they had been gone for hours!

On a completely different note: the Facebook news feed. If you use Facebook, you've surely noticed it. As far as I can tell, it basically doesn't filter anything, unless you tell it to. It shows you everything that appeared on friends' walls. I didn't mind, until the weekend came, and a particular friend found himself with lots of times on his hand. Lots of time which, naturally, he devoted to one of those applications I really don't give a shit about.

damn news feed (hosted at imageshack.us)

And this is only a part of all those damn things. And if I click the X that appears on hover, it doesn't just delete the story, it blocks this person from my news feed. Then again, it's not like I care about him enough to be sorry if he doesn't show up on there.